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Stamp Honors Crawford Long First Ether Surgeon
Dr Crawford Long of Georgia is honored with a new postage stamp for administering ether as an anaesthetic in 1842. The article notes competing claims by dentist W T G Morton and celebrates Long’s recognition after prior controversy, including details of Venable’s procedure and the 1846 Boston demonstration. It also mentions the 1942 centenary and Clendening’s medical pamphlets offered by mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan Clendening
Post Office
Crawford W. Long
Georgia
Valerius Cordis
Nuremberg
Germany
Cordis
Jefferson
Long
Georgia State Medical Society
Crawford
W.T. G. Morton
Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
J. C. Warren
H. J. Bigelow
Warren
Bigelow
Boston Medical & Surgical Journal
Robert Liston
London
Morton
Congress
Clendening